Offshore Supervisor Physics and Basic physical units used in diving and conversions

Boyle’s Law (calculating air volumes and diver’s gas consumption)

Surface Supply Compressors

Gas Used in an Emergency

Gas Volumes for Pressurization

Dalton’s Law (partial pressure of gases at various depths)

Henry’s Law (the effect of partial pressures on the solubility of gases in liquids and the corresponding effects on decompression)

Oxygen and Henry’s Law

Nitrogen and Henrys Law

Charles’ Law (the relationship between pressure changes and temperature changes)

Archimedes’ Principle (calculating the buoyancy and lift requirements of various objects)

Carbon Dioxide and Henry’s Law

Carbon Dioxide and Henry’s Law

Directional Terms

Cell Function

The respiratory, circulatory, basic skeletal and nervous systems of the body

The problems of maintaining divers in thermal balance and the symptoms and treatments of hypo- and hyperthermia

The effects of gases on the body and their limits under pressure (in particular, oxygen, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen)

The effects of pressure on the body and the principles of decompression and therapeutic procedures including proximity to a chamber and flying after diving

The causes and symptoms of decompression sickness and barotrauma

Pulmonary Barotrauma of Ascent

Injuries

The contents, requirements, and maintenance of various types of diving medical kits

Awareness of the requirements of divers’ current physical and mental health to undertake diving operations

Leadership and Control

Communication and Leadership

Speaking Hints

Safety Culture and Leadership

Safety Culture Leadership – Quiz

The compilation and use of diving equipment checklists

Reporting of accidents occurring in the water or on deck

leadership and communication, including the role of a leader, communication, and possible conflicts

planning and organising work, including risk assessment, assigning work tasks and team building

leadership in emergency and stress situations, including symptom recognition, preventative measures, courses of action and transfer of experience.

Diving Supervisors Responsibilities

Supervisors Manual and Risk Assessment

Saipem DROPS – Choice Not Chance

Introduction

Size of Team

Working Periods

Qualifications and Competence

Diver and Deck Crew Competence

Responsibilities of Members of the Dive Team

Responsibilities of the Client and Manager

Responsibilities of the Diving Superintendent

The Diving Supervisor

Duties of the Diving Supervisor and In-Water Monitoring

Diver’s Duties

Diver and DP Vessel Communication

Communications within the Dive Team

Document Control

Diving Operations Logbooks

Reporting and Checklists

Certification and Maintenance

The Dive Plan and MOC

Good Communication

General Vessel Communications

Communications with the Diver

Toolbox Talks

Responsibility of the Diving Supervisor and Diving Contractor

Local Weather Forecasts

Beaufort Scale

Weather Tables

Tides and Currents

Visibility

Sound Transmission and Hazardous Marine Life

Project Management Safety Systems (SMS) Interface Documents

Risk Assessment

Hazard Rating

Approaches to Safety

Housekeeping and Management of Change

Emergency Drills

Managing an Emergency

Diving in Contaminated Waters

Ingestion, Aspiration, and Ionising Radiation

Types of Contamination

Diving in Drill Mud

Pipelines and Wellheads

Pipeline Testing

IMCA Safety Flash: Fatality: Stored Pressure Release

Overboard Scaffolding and Tubular Operations

Diver and ROV-Based Concrete Mattress Handling

Good Industry Practice

Installation Frame

Communications for Over-Boarding and Deployment

Lifting and Over-the-Side Work

Limitations of SCUBA

Safe Use of Electricity

Diver’s Body Resistance Values

ROV Intervention during Diving Ops

ROV Team Requirements and Responsibilities

IMCA Safety Flash 12/20

Regulators

Valves

Pillar Valves and Fittings

Safety Flashes

IMCA Publication

Air Chamber Procedures

Therapeutic Treatment and Periodic Testing

Fire Hazard

Gas Suppplies

Chamber Connections

Use and Maintenance of BIBS

Medical Locks

Viewports

Managing Gas Supplies

High and Low Pressure

Oxygen Handling

Gas Analysis

Chemical Sampling Tubes

Minimum Quantities of Gas and IMCA Publication

Air and Gas Purity

Quads and Cylinders

Colour Coding and Marking

Oxygen Systems

Oxygen Cleaning and Periodic Testing

Dive Requirements

Flying After Diving

TADS – Flying After Diving

Launch and Recovery Systems (LARS)

TADS – LARS

Length of Divers’ Umbilicals

TADS – Umbilicals

Water Intakes and Discharges

Dive Team and Air and Gas Supplies

Decompression Procedures

Wet Bell

IMCA Safety Flash

Nitrox Diving Procedures

Fire and Explosion Risk

Secondary Surface Gas Supplies

Surface Mixed Gas Diving

Manning Levels and Equipment

Decompression Facility

Vessel Selection and Safety

Types of Mooring Systems

Types of Diving Vessels and Platforms

DP Vessels

DP Alerts

DP Propulsion and Control Systems

Laser Radar Systems

Sensors and Vessel Movements

Diving within Anchor Patterns

Safe Length of Umbilical

Extended Umbilicals

Active In-Water Tending and Calculations

Passive (Unmanned) In-Water Tending

Minimum Operating Clearance and IMCA Publication

Mobile and Daughter Craft Systems

Equipment Requirements

Environmental Conditions and IMCA Publication

Module 1: What is Resilience?

Module 2: Keeping Things in Perspective

Module 3: Change is Part of Life

Module 4: Taking Care of Yourself

Module 5: Taking Decisive Action

Module 6: How Resilient are You?

Requirements

Terminal Objectives

Terminology, Responsibilities, and Career Structure

Offshore Experience at Trainee Level

TADS Planner

IMCA Documents and Examination Procedure

Diving Supervisor CPD requirements

Guidance for Diving Supervisors

Recommended Study Material​

Glossary of Terms

Flow Diagrams

Weather Terminology and Classifications

Vessel Hazard Drawings

Competence Assurance

Diving Physiology Case Study

IMCA ADS Sample Exam Questions

IMCA D018

Diving Supervisor and Technician Responsibilities

Pressure Gauges and Pressure Monitoring Equipment

Practice Test: Chapters 1-5

Practice Test: Chapters 6-7

Practice Test: Physiology

Practice Test: Physics

DP Practice Exam

Practice Test: Physiology TADS

Practice Test: IMCA D018

Practice Test: IMCA D62